BillD,

You state " I would bet that the folks who wrote good old Amendment #2 would be aghast at what society & firearms are like today, and would NEVER have allowed such a short, semi-ambiguous phrase to define our practices. They had only what they knew....but we know more now, and should be willing, as you, Mick, point out, to "change what needs changing". "

AAnd their thoughts about the internet, where false statements can go around the world beore it is even known that they are being said? Perhaps they would have changed freedom of speech, the right to assemble, freedom of religion, etc...

There is a process for change- but I have noted no effort to use it on the second amendment- just the use of local laws to limit what has now been determined to be a basic right. Feel free to advocate changing the Bill of Rights- just don't complain when someone you don't agree with changes the parts that YOU feel are "basic rights".